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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (83918)	3/19/2003 7:12:22 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

But those who didn't believe that Saddam had any WMDs will refuse to be moved. They will mutter that the US staged it all. sadly, I think we will hear this... --fl@objectivetruth?.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (83918)	3/19/2003 7:14:20 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

Because, after all, this argument was never about WMDs or even Saddam in the first place. It was about American power. The prowar camp wanted to extricate American power from an untenable situation trying and failing to contain an irrational regime. The antiwar camp wanted to keep American power tied up and hamstrung. Depends on your perspective, I think. From the Administration's perspective, it was clearly always about the threat posed by Saddam. It became about American power after the anti-war movement got rolling, the French started acting tres stupide, and we agreed to participate in the never-ending diplomatic jerque circulaire. The thing took a surreal life of its own in the last six weeks or so. But those who didn't believe that Saddam had any WMDs will refuse to be moved. They will mutter that the US staged it all Or the Jews.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (83918)	3/19/2003 8:26:21 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The antiwar camp wanted to keep American power tied up and hamstrung. What I am hearing more and more leads me to believe that a lot of these people are really hoping for a disaster just so they can say "I told you so". I honestly still don't have a real clue whether Iraq is just the mouse that roared or not, but can well believe that it would be in the administration's best interests to keep any real solid evidence under wraps till the right moment. On the other hand, there are always so many leaks..... you'd almost think something, anything, would have "leaked" by now ! That actually worries me, and there may not really be much to be found in Iraq after all. Before the Gulf War even, Israel had already taken out Iraq's French donated nuclear reactor, a fact which has clearly played a role in France's "good will" toward Israel to this day.